Curious how many Terabytes you have written to your SSD!
I have an Intel G2 80GB. So far I am at 3.78TB according to the "Host Writes" S.M.A.R.T. attribute available for viewing with the Intel SSD Toolbox.
I think most of it is because I was running my bittorrent client, which has a memory leak, and I left it running even though it used up all my free RAM and proceeded to use 9GB of my pagefile! SSD access was intense and this is probably was caused the large value, but I don't care! My system was nice and responsive despite having no free RAM. I kept it this way for days just because I wanted to see how far I could go.. I was running out of free space on the SSD for expanding the page file size!

Drive is still 100% reliable, 3 reallocated sectors.

How much have you written to your drive without failure(post if large # of reallocated sectors)? Any manufacture of SSD but if you have over 12TB you should post if it was an SLC or MLC or hybrid SLC/MLC type.

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I am kind of glad the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue doesn't keep track... that thing was brutalized before we adjusted our tests from HDD-specific to SSD-compatible.Its probably in the 20-30TB written range, and still chugging along fine in a desktop. MLC Samsung NAND in that.

Will post info from a few more SSDs around here when if i can extract any meaningful numbers. Do you know any way to get write-info from MTRON SLC drives or OCZ Revo drives? (I can 'guesstimate' but it would be nice to be precise).

Was that 270TiB highly random and incompressable? To absorb 80% of 5000 cycle NAND on a 120gig sandforce drive, you would be running a write multiplier a fair bit higher a normal desktop load would create?

I was surprised to have written "only" 7TB. I've had an Intel G2 160GB since right after release, and have used it for a lot of movie and music processing, and the Intel SSD Toolkit still says I have 100% life left. Maybe I'll leave it to my grandkids one day.

4.70-5.62 TB written to each of my three 80 GB Intel X25M G2 in RAID 0 now, with nearly 19,000 power on hours and a media wear out indicator of only 97%. Each of the three drives has a re-allocated sector count of 1.

Still going strong! :-)

At the end of April, or beginning of May, I should get a new system anyway - just waiting for Ivybridge and the dual-GPU Radeon 7990. When that time comes, I will opt for a couple of 240 GB Intel *or* Samsung SSDs in RAID 0. Leaning towards the Samsungs at this point.

Wasn't a new version of the Intel RST drivers that supported TRIM on RAID 0 in the works? I read something about it some time ago and then not a peep.